Many had sensed there was something amis when the figure was not published on it's website on the hour, like it did for all the hours before 10pm.
When it was finally published at 10.45pm, it read a dangerous 393. A psi watcher took a screenshot which was published by the Facebook group, Occupy Singapore (see 2nd screenshot). It was almost immediately taken down and replaced with 321, the reported figure in today's headline news.
Many Singaporeans knew when they woke up yesterday morning that the psi readings for the day were going to be record-breaking ones. Problem is, if the figures were massaged by NEA for public consumption, and not to cause alarm, then i am afraid Singaporeans are going to end up bigger fools for it.
It was clear, just by looking up into the sky, that yesterday's psi was definitely worse than the day before. However we were getting readings that showed the opposite. It was only at 9pm, when the charade could not be hidden anymore that the reading leapt 100 points from 190 to 290.
Singaporeans were alarmed at a time when they were preparing to rest for the night. Some stayed up to monitor the situation but they did not get any update till almost an hour later.
Yet now, we are none the wiser whether the readings were massaged figures or actual readings.
The Alternative View